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After two recent encounters with crime, Warren Ritter is determined to live the quiet life, but fate isn't paying any attention. His daughter, Fran, with whom he has only recently become acquainted, is in serious need of his help. She has separated from her husband, Orrin, who has taken their five-month-old son and refuses to give him back. If she challenges him, he will lie about her suitability as a mother. He's a police officer and she is afraid he can get away with it. Things become even more complicated when Orrin is found dead and Fran becomes the prime suspect. Now it's going to take Warren's full store of resources to clear his daughter's name.David Skibbins's two previous novels have received high praise, both for his unusual and likable sleuth, the "hippie of a certain age" Warren, and the vivid Berkeley setting. With this third installment, Skibbins gives readers another thrilling adventure embellished with the mysteries of the tarot.… (meer)
Excellent third outing for Warren Ritter, the tarot-card reading, bipolar former 60s radical. In this book he must help his recently-discovered daughter who is accused of killing her husband. ( )
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I dedicated my first two books to organizations and women that many people know. The Star is dedicated to a woman very few people know. You can't even find Dorothea Romankiw by searching in Google. And yet, for dozens of us, she altered our lives completely. She died in her eighties in July of 2006. In 1964 she began a treatment center for schizophrenic adolescents based on the work of Carl Jung called St. George Homes. It was located in Victorian homes scattered around north Berkeley. She was brilliant, impossible, unpredictable, compassionate, and rarely satisfied. But she woke up the staff, and some of the kids, to a magical, mystical world of myth and beauty that permeates what we call ordinary reality. Jungians study the collective unconscious. At St. George's we lived it. In tepees on the desert floor, in sweat lodges under redwoods, in candlelight beside a frozen lake, or dressed in robes and ornate masks in the hills of Berkeley, one hundred and fifty staff and forty-five schizophrenic teenagers encountered the healing power of the collective unconscious. One young patient said it best: "In other institutions people watched me go down into the crazy places. You went down there with me, by my side. Then we came out together." It is because of her that Warren knows these dark corners of the psyche. He, and I, bow low in honor of your memory, Dorothea.
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Mr. Ritter, I mean Warren, ah...Dad, I need your help.
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
After two recent encounters with crime, Warren Ritter is determined to live the quiet life, but fate isn't paying any attention. His daughter, Fran, with whom he has only recently become acquainted, is in serious need of his help. She has separated from her husband, Orrin, who has taken their five-month-old son and refuses to give him back. If she challenges him, he will lie about her suitability as a mother. He's a police officer and she is afraid he can get away with it. Things become even more complicated when Orrin is found dead and Fran becomes the prime suspect. Now it's going to take Warren's full store of resources to clear his daughter's name.David Skibbins's two previous novels have received high praise, both for his unusual and likable sleuth, the "hippie of a certain age" Warren, and the vivid Berkeley setting. With this third installment, Skibbins gives readers another thrilling adventure embellished with the mysteries of the tarot.